The "Perfect" Eye
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Step 1

First of all, open up your image of the eye you would like to colorize, this could be a whole face image, or a close up of the eye - which i will be using for teaching purposes in this tutorial.

 

 

 

Step 2

Now we want to make a selection of the eye itself. To do this we will just use the Eliptical Marquee tool(M). When the tool is selecte, drag an elipse around the iris, like so:

 

 

 

Step 3

We need to be careful with the selection of the eye, because in its current state, when we want to colourize, the eye-lid will also be coloured. Therefore we need to deselect the area where the eye lid has been selected. To do this we will simple use the Polygonal lasso tool(L).
While holding the ALT button on your keyboard, left click around the area of the eye-lid and make the following selection:

 

 

 

Step 4

Now onto the fun part, deciding what colour you would like to make your eye! On the bottom of your layers pallete, clck on the "create new fill or adjustment layer", and click on "color balance". A keyboard shortcut for this is CTRL + B.

A dialog box will apear showing attributes for Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow. Play around with these settings to get the desired colour for your new set of eyes!

 

For example:

 

 

 

Step 5

Now that is colouring at its most basic level, if you use some initiative, you might thing... well that doesnt really blend in well...
So for that reason, im going to ak you to change the blending options of your colour balance layer to "overlay":

 

Now try playing with the blending options again.
TIP: To easily change the settings without starting again from the start, double click on the thumbnail next to the Color Balanace layer, the one with the circle and the triangle.

 

And thats that!
I hope you enjoyed the tutorial, and hopefully you were able to learn something from it, now go ahead and create those 'perfect' eyes!

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  1. #32 AD
    2008-12-2806:12:39
    Nice tut mate. Learned a skill.
  2. #31 Dewald Hein
    2008-12-2708:17:15
    Quoting ten:
    the version of my adobe doesn't have color balance.how?
    Nid ur help..

    Tnx in advance.


    Hi Ten, what version of photoshop are you using?
    All versions of photoshop to my knowledge has this feature. If you cannot find it the drop down menu, press CTRL + B on your keyboard and the dialog box should apear.
    Thanks for the question.
    I'll send an email to your address incase you do not read this reply
  3. #30 ten
    2008-12-2617:55:13
    the version of my adobe doesn't have color balance.how?
    Nid ur help..

    Tnx in advance.
  4. #29 aliGator
    2008-11-2817:30:28
  5. #28 Tim
    2008-11-1913:53:36
    I enjoy this tutorial but i just can't get the polygonal lassoo tool part.. :( mind helping?
  6. #27 Dewald Hein
    2008-11-1715:57:28
    Quoting Ben:
    This is what i've been doing all the time, x) just didn't have the time to make a tutorial.

    this is actually the BEST way to change the eye color of an eye.

    GREAT tutorial =D

    Hey thanks Ben! Appreciate it. We're in the same boat, tutorials take a big effort to make, glad you liked it =)
  7. #26 Ben
    2008-11-1715:30:38
    This is what i've been doing all the time, x) just didn't have the time to make a tutorial.

    this is actually the BEST way to change the eye color of an eye.

    GREAT tutorial =D
  8. #25 vinay kumar
    2008-11-1407:41:41
    very nice effect
  9. #24 Dewald Hein
    2008-11-0700:30:11
    Quoting MeganGrace:
    This tutorial Is GREATTT!
    You Have Alot of talent to do this, But it really helped me :)
    Thanks'x


    Thanks Megan =) I'm really glad that it helped you.
  10. #23 MeganGrace
    2008-11-0623:09:00
    This tutorial Is GREATTT!
    You Have Alot of talent to do this, But it really helped me :)
    Thanks'x

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